Grain-car door



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GRAIN GAR DOOR.

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' GRAIN GAR D0011. No. 515,672. Patented Peb. 27, 1894.

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JOSEPH H. GOODE, WILLIAM H. ANTHONY, AND THOMAS S. LLOYD, OF RICHMOND,VIRGINIA.

G RAIN- CAR DOOR.

SPEGIFIOAIION forming part of Letters Patent No. 515,672, dated February27, 1894.

Application filed May 9, 1893. $eria1 No- 4=73,524- (ll'o model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOSEPH H. GOODE, WVI LDIAM H. ANTHONY, and THOMASS. LLOYD, residing at Richmond, in the county of Henrlco and State ofVirginia, have invented a new and Improved Grain-Oar Door, of which thefollowing is a specification.

Our invention relates to inside grain doors for cars, and it has for itsobject to provide a door of this character simple in its construction,easily manipulated, and very effectiye for its desired purpose, and suchinventlon consists in the peculiar combination and novel arrangement ofparts, as will be hereinafter described in the specification andparticularly pointed out in the claims, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings in which-- Figure 1 is an inside face view of agrain car door constructed in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is avertical longitudinal section thereof on the line 2-2 Fig. 1. Fig. 3 15an enlarged sectional view of the slide operating mechanism and Fig. 4is a horizontal section of the door way, the outside car door beingshown in dotted lines in a closed position. the supplemental fasteningdevice hereinafter referred to.

lteferring to the accompanying drawings A indicates a portion of the carbody, B the outer and O the inner lining of the side wall thereof. Ddenotes the door opening, to the posts D' of which the lining portions Band O are connected as most clearly shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings.

On the floor E of the car adjacent the inner face of the door way isdisposed a casting F extending longitudinally across the door way, andcontinued at one side as at F adjacent the inner wall or lining O, andpar allel with such casting F is arranged at the inner edge of the doorway a plate G.

By referring now to Fig. 3 it will be noticed that at the inner edge ofits upper face, the plate F has a groove or guide way f which inconnection with the plate G and the lining wall 0 forms the bottom guideor track way for the out oif or slide bar H, which is Fig. 5 is a detailview, illustrating opposite post, and is held closed by a gravity catchJ, as shown in Fig. 1, and in the practical construction a similar catchis used on the inside of the car to hold the door to its open position.

As will be noticed in Fig. 2 the bottom of the door does not extend tothe floor of the car, leaving as it were a grain discharge openingextending entirely across the door opening, which when the car isfilled, is held closed by the slide or cut ofi H before referred to.This slide which is in the nature of a shaped casting has verticalflanges h k at its upper and lower ends the lower one 7& of which ridesin the way f while the upper flange slides in a groove 1 on the innerface of the lower edge of the door as shown. The inner face of the upperhorizontal portion of the slide H is formed asa rack member, with whichengages a cog gear K, on the inner end of a shaft journaled to one sideof the door opening, to the outer end of which is secured a crank handleL. This handle L is formed of a link arm Z pivoted on the end of theshaft is, as shown most clearly in Fig. 3, in the outer bifurcated endof which is pivotally connected the handle Z. It will he noticed byreference to such Fig. 3, that the link Z and crank handie Z are sojoined that when lowered for operating the shaft is they assume theposition shown in full lines in Fig. 3, but when out of operation theywill extend in the same vertical plane, as shown in dotted lines in suchfigure. When in the latter position, the handle portion Z of the crankhandle will pass through a hole a. in the side of the car, while itsshank, which has an aperture Z will fit over a staple M such handlebeing held in place by the chain and staple devices N as shown. Itshould be stated however that while the staple will serveto firmly holdthe handle in place, it is held locked by the seal 0 which is attachedto the staple M as shown when the car'is loaded and ready'for shipment.

lo prevent the lower slide section H from belng operated after the caris loaded and the outer door is closed and locked, and in case the leverL is moved from its locked position, we provide a supplemental lockingdev ce 1n the nature of a pin P, attached to a chain Q connected at itsupper end to the upper or swing door I; and such pin passes through anaperture in the upper end of the slide member H and a notch in the lower7 edge of the door I as most clearly shown in Fig. 5. By thisconstruction it will be read- 11y seen that after the car is loaded andthe front or outside door locked should the lever L in any manner becomeunlocked it will be lmpossible to operate the slide member H through themedium of the cog and rack devices until after the outside door isunlocked and pin P withdrawn.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the drawings,the advantages and operation of ourimproved door will readily appear.

It will be seen that after the filled car reaches its destination and itis desired to empty the same the outside door is opened, the seal isbroken, and the crank handle turned down to operate the shaft, to drawthe slide H back to partially or entirely open the discharge mouth underthe door, as may be desired. It will also be noticed that by hinging thedoor to swing inward, it will be impossible to open the door so long asthe grain level inside is above the bottom opening.

Havingthus described our invention, what We claim,and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. As an improvement in grain car doors, the combination with the doorway, of a cut ofi slide movable over the lower or discharge end thereof,a swinging door movable over the upper part of such opening, means forlocking the slide to its closed position, a lock device for connectingthe door and slide, to hold the slide from movement substantially asshown and for the purposes described.

2. As an improvement in grain car doors, the combination with the doorway, the door hinged to swing inward, and to cover the upper part of theopening, said door having a guide flange at its lower end, and a guideway on the car floor, of a slide or cut ofi, movable over the lower ordischarge end of the door opening, said slide having guides fitting theflange on the car doorand the way on the car floor and means for lockingsuch slide to its closed position substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination with the door way D, the guide way at the bottomthereof, the hinged door I having a groove I on its lower end, of theslide H having flanges fitting the groove I and the floor guide, saidslide having a cog rack portion, the operating shaft is and gear K, acrankhandle and means for locking such handle from movement substantially as shown and described.

4:. In a grain car door, the combination with the door opening and theaperture (1,, the base guide way, the swinging door I formed with agroove I at its lower end, of the j shaped slide H having flanges h 71fitting the ways I and F and an internal cog rack, theshaft and 'gear 70and K, the crank handle formed of pivoted members H, the member Z havinga slot, the staple M fitting the slot in the member Z when raised andthe lock chain N,

all arranged substantially as shown and described.

JOSEPH H. GOODE. WILLIAM H. ANTHONY. THOMAS S. LLOYD. Witnesses:

H. A. MoCURDY, P. P. RYAN.

